“When you get something you have really wanted, you work hard,” says Dennis. “Mechanics has been my dream since I was a really young one, and I would watch my neighbor work on this car.   I would hang in over the motor admiring what a fine thing it was!”

Dennis, 24,  was a poor boy from a large family of 11 children.   Only four  are still living.  Seven of them most likely died of malaria, since Dennis comes from Apache, the area with the highest malaria incidence in Uganda.  His father, whose colorful name “Bera Bora” means “the sky is high,” was a tailor who was paralyzed in an accident.
 
When BeadforLife met Dennis, he and his mother were running a small vegetable stand by the roadside to eke out a small living for the family.

Dennis is now a second year student in BeadforLife’s Vocational Training Program.  He will graduate soon and will be ready to work in an auto garage or industrial plant as a mechanic.  He looks forward to supporting his parents and three sisters.
 
“I had no hope, only an interest to study,” he says. “BeadforLife uplifted my future.  I will give it my all.”